I've been running Vista now for over a year and ever since I made the switch, I've been annoyed, by how Vista deals with Wallpaper. I'm on using a widescreen monitor, with vista, it doesnt' resize the image to fit without stretching it. With XP, it would resize it while maintaining its proportions, but I can't seem to find a way to do that with vista.
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My old computer has Windows XP. My new one has Windows Vista Home Premium x32.
When I scanned photos with XP on my HP1200 printer/scanner in Preview I could enlarge the photos. With Vista can't seem do that. Am I missing something here? I can scan in Paint or in Windows Photo Gallery, but in neither can I enlarge the photo.
The Taskbar is too wide resulting in part of the clock not being visible. how to resize top and bottom but does not mention sideways.Thinking this might be a need to resize the Desktop looked in Help but no joy there!
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In windows mail, when selecting new stationery, a small applet would allow you to choose.
Something has changed on my m/c as now that applet opens in full screen, with no means of resizing the window.
If they have a built in Wallpaper Changer as is in WIN7 Ultimate?
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Was this an update because this is really annoying!? It was much easier to fit the wallpaper to screen without stretching it when I could fit horizontal and vertical? Why can I not do this now?
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Vista x64 going to change Wallpaper but all I can see is the icon and no picture same goes in Windows Explorer, NO Picture just the Icon.
Preview of the Pic should be there right?
how to save a GIF image to my backround so that it is always moving?
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4. I shutdown my computer after I was done using it.
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in Vista x64 going to change Wallpaper but all I can see is the icon and no picture same goes in Windows Explorer, NO Picture just the Icon. Preview of the Pic should be there right?
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